Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Excellence

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

10.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

11.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

12.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

14.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

15.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

18.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

19.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

20.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

21.

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

22.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

25.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

27.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

30.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

31.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

32.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

33.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

34.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

35.

The road to excellence is always under construction

36.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

37.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

38.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

39.

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

40.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

43.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

44.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

45.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

46.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

47.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

49.

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas